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WSN: NEW BOOK "Water and Biological Macromolecules"

Courtesy of Prof. Eric Westhof (IBMC-CNRS, Strasbourg)
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                   WATER AND BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES


In Europe and elsewhere:   MACMILLAN Press: London, 1993 
In North America:          CRC Press: Boca Raton (FL), 1993.

ISBN 0-333-55116-8, xiii, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
SERIES: Topics in molecular and structural biology


                               Edited by
                             Eric WESTHOF

            Institut de Biologie Moliculaire et Cellulaire,
             Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
                         15, rue Reni Descartes
                    F-67084 Strasbourg CDX, France                      
                  e-mail : westhof@imbc.u-strasbg.fr
                           fax : 33-88-610680

                              CONTENTS

               1. Water
                  1.1. Water structure 
                       H.F.J. SAVAGE
                  1.2. Thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water
                       H.D. LUDEMANN

               2. Proteins
                  2.1. Hydration of amino acids in protein crystals
                       J.M. GOODFELLOW, N. THANKI, & J.M. THORNTON
                  2.2. Water structure of crystallized proteins :
                       high resolution studie
                       M. FREY
                  2.3. Hydration of protein secondary structures :
                       the role in protein folding
                       C.Y. SEKKARUDU & M. SUNDARALINGAM

               3. Nucleic Acids
                  3.1. Molecular Dynamics Studies
                       D.L. BEVERIDGE
                  3.2. Structural water bridges in nucleic acids
                       E. WESTHOF
                  3.3. Hydration sites and hydration bridges around
                       DNA helices
                       F. VOVELLE & J.M. GOODFELLOW
                  3.4. Light scattering spectroscopic studies of
                       the water molecules in DNA
                       N.J. TAO

               4. Polysaccharides and Lipids
                  4.1. Polysaccharide interactions with water
                       S. PEREZ
                  4.2. The role of structural water molecules in
                       protein-saccharide complexes
                       Y. BOURNE & C. CAMBILLAU
                  4.3. Lipid hydration
                       G. CEVC

               5. Thermodynamics
                  5.1. Hydration Forces 
                       C.J. VAN OOS
                  5.2. Solvation thermodynamics of biopolymers 
                       A. BEN-NAIM